Requiem for Childhood

(For my Mom and Dad)

From boyhood to manhood you pass
like sweet morning rain.
The songs you sang the morning last
are now a new refrain.
No longer held in mother's arms
no longer take of father's bread
This life is yours with great alarm
there's another place to make your bed.

Make of your life what you will
be never too ashamed.
Your dreams are but your plans to build
your tools are what you've gained.
If ever dreams let you down
if ever dreams go nowhere,
There are greater things to get you down
and greater burdens to bear.

by David R. Normand
C. 1979
 

Come to Me, a Poem by David R. Normand

If ever lives were destined
Ours were of the fate.
Hoping to be entwined
We wound up separate.
Time was all you asked for
From one such as me,
But my impatience was at war
With my loyalty.

Compassion from the heart
Forgiveness from the soul,
Despair is just a state of mind
With no place to go.
Come to me, my lover lost
And soothe the heart that yearns
Before I die old and gray
The oldest man that learns.

By David R. Normand
C. 1979

Notes from my desk. 

Happy Thanksgiving, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Celebrate the joys in your life. Hug your family. Tell them that you love them and that they are so special in your life.  I love my wife and my two wonderful, talented and happy kids. 

I am thankful for my Mom. I miss her everyday. How can I cook Thanksgiving dinner without her? She was always the planner. 

I am thankful for my Dad. Had he not spoken to that beautiful girl in the registration line at college 57 years ago, my brothers and sisters and I would not be who we are today. Thank you Mom and Dad. Thank you God, for putting them together in that spot. 

Happy Thanksgiving.

D.

snacks on my driveway

Took a sick day today.  I was fighting a cold.  Mega doses of Vitamin C helped. I am feeling much better after a day of rest and de-stressing.

I got up this morning and had some coffee, read the paper and settled down on the couch.  I opened the curtains, grabbed my blanket and coffee and was hoping to read a book.  It was real nice sitting there reading with sun coming through the trees and the window.
 
Sat there with my book when all of a sudden there were several black flashes outside the window.  Shadows were moving in front of  the window.  Ok.  What is that?  I got up and looked out.  There were three crows wandering about on my driveway.  They were picking up the seeds from the ash trees.  Fine.  Not bothering anyone.  And the seeds they eat don't sprout in my flower beds.  Less weeding for me.
 
Have fun.  Enjoy the snack. 
D.